Growth, Part 1: A Peek Behind the Curtain
Looking at the various ways WOTW has grown, expanded, edited and expanded again — and all the bumps along the way.
Week of the Website has been on quite the roller coaster ride over the last 12 to 18 months. We are fast approaching our parent company’s 8th birthday, and singling out WOTW as our main focus for the last two years has turbo-charged our growth to unexpected places.
I credit a lot of things to for this success. A strong business partnership based on — first and foremost — LOVE, but also respect and autonomy. Mentors who are frank and push us where we needed to be pushed. Hard work unraveling attachments and blocks that may be keeping us from our highest potential. Oh, a lot of lows. So many deep lows where we found ourselves being tested by the question over and over, “Is this what I TRULY want to be doing?”
Those are the moments of recommitment. Those are the moments that remind us WHY we are doing something.
Any business owner will read you a litany of why it’s difficult to own and operate your own business. However, viewing it through the lens of fulfillment is what pushes you forward, revealing the best in everything. Sacrifices become challenges and opportunities. Dissolving your ego and attachment to success produces brilliant solution-centered mindsets. Maybe this is sounding like a TED Talk, but I eat this word salad for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
This is just the first in a series of posts that I want to share based on something very real happening behind the scenes here. The development of our Pro offering, our service that effectively brings our solutions and process mindset to creative agencies and beyond to create and execute websites on time, and ready for you to use.
It’s just one example of the growth, the movement, the constant evaluation of how to best serve both current and potential clients. Stay tuned this month for more on the different aspects of growing Week of the Website. We’re sure all of you small business owners and entrepreneurs — and even team leaders at larger companies — will relate.
— Mallory Ulaszek, Co-Founder
